EE TIT mq y uy i! Ks pide hg 54s ame jt Q air aad as Castlégar News May 24, 1967 New needle coming could be completed in the spreading diseases, such as next three months, and the hepatitis or AIDS from pati- product. could be available by ents to patient or patient to late this year, he said. medical staff through needle- The company expects sales Legislative Library, ~Parlianeat Bld , SOL Beldeysite st Vietorla, B. Cs vav 1X4 PORTLAND, ORE. (AP) — A subsidiary of Bioject Medical Systems Ltd. of Vancouver has received ap- proval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to of $10 million US the first market a needleless hypo, year and $100 million US by dermic syringe. 1991. Bioject Inc. is negotiating The Bioject injection sys- with major pharmaceutical tem will be the first non- companies to manufacture needle drug delivery system and market the jet-injection to be cost competitive with system, said Steve G. Fin- needle syringes, Finegan egan, Bioject’s marketing said. and communications — vice Although the system costs president. about twice as much as need- The system eliminates the les, its safety factors, broad risk of spreadking infection application and relative ease by contaminated needles, make it worth the price, he Finegan said. said. Manufacturing “This reduces the risk of Foes NE 365-5210 src, cer teres ont HERMAN” oving iR Storage stick accidents or poorly sterilized needieless * injec- tors,” company president Carl Wileox said in a state- ment. The system uses carbon dioxide to propel a stream of medication into the patient's skin through a minute hole in the disposable medication ampule, s hole a third the size of the smallest needle, Fin- egan said. The reusable injector never touches the patient, and the medication and car- bon dioxide ampules are re- placed after each injection. The injector can be adjusted for intramuscular or beneath- the-skin injections. Because there is no needle, there is no trauma to the skin, and the medication won't penetrate a vein or an artery. The small, hand-held in- jector will retail for $50 US to $100 US, and the disposable ampules will sell for 75 cents CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1987 3 Sections (A, B & C) aying opposed The Environment Ministry took CP Rail to court in 1986 and the company was fined $100 for infractions while spraying in the Slocan Valley. The regional district passed a motion last year declaring itself a pesticide-free zone. At Monday's monthly school board meeting, trustee Gordon Turner said the herbicide spraying is potentially dangerous to pupils attending schools near railroad tracks or to those children who must cross the tracks on the way to school. According to some trustees Spike 80W is some nine times more potent than a similar commercially available product called Roundup. CP Rail intends to start spraying June 20, approximate- ly one week before schools close for the summer, and will continue spraying unti] July 21. According to the board, Tarrys school may face the on page A2 staurants THE COLANDER SPAGHETTI HOUSE Specializing in ttalian Cuisine “A Trail Tradition” Rocky View Tax & Beckhosping Servi {Small Business & Contrectors © Form- Leet No. 06-1645 Columbia A: Castioger, B.C. VIN in RENE MORTIMER (365-2352 SOLIGO, KOIDE & JOHN CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS WILLIAMS MOVING & STORAGE 2337 - 6th Ave., Castlegor Invite you to call them for a tree By RON NORMAN and MIKE KALESNIKO CP Rail's plan to spray herbicides along railway tracks in the West Kootenay and Creston Valley beginning next month has met with a groundswell of opposition. Castlegar and Nelson municipal councils and the Castlegar school board this week joined the Central Kootenay Regional District in protesting the herbicide spraying. CP Rail last week that June 20 it plans to spray the herbicide Spike 80W along its main track for about 50 kilometres from South Slocan to Slocan City and for about 80 kilometres from Nelson west through Castlegar to Coykendall. The regional district voted Saturday to apply for a court injunetion to stop’the spraying. Castlegar and Nelson councils stopped short of court action. Instead, the two councils decided to write to CP Rail and the Ministry of P program. Castlegar school board will also send a letter to CP Rail protesting the spraying, and will also add its support to the regional district's court injunction, , Ald. Patti Richards, chairman of Castlegar council's health and welfare committee, said Tuesday night the proposed herbicide spraying “goes right through Castlegar.” Ald, Len Embree noted that he has had at least a half dozen telephone calls from concerned residents. “I take a really dim view of it because I live right against the tracks,” added Ald. Albert Calderbank. Ald. Carl Henne said many residents in south Castlegar have gardens that border on the tracks. “It'll kill all the food,” he said. However, Richards pointed out after the meeting that the spraying program will not include the tracks in south Castlegar. She said it will fellow the CP Rail line from ing the spraying Nelson to Robson where it will cross the Columbia River into downtown Castlegar and then turn north along the river. The Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 2262, representing Castlegar city workers, has also protested the spraying. In a letter to Castlegar council, secretary-treasurer Bill Hadikin says his members have “deep concerns” about the spraying program. “With the amount of small children living and playing near the tracks or having to cross the tracks to go to schools, the use of thi: that still has effects is nat in the best interests of our citizens and should not be allowed,” he said Regional district chairman George Cady said the district will appeal the two permits issued CP Rail through the provincial environmental appeal board, but is taking the court action because public hearings on pesticide permits are no longer automatic through the appeal board. 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Try Business Directory Advertising Brummet pans small school repor TONY BRUMMET - Money the issue By CasNews Staff Education Minister Tony Brummet has panned Castlegar school district's special report on the value of small schools, stating that if communities want small schools, local taxpayers will have to pay for them. In a letter to Castlegar school board, Brummet states, “There is only so much money available for education in B.C.” “If one district is to receive funding to operate very small schools in situ. ations where the students could reasonably attend another school, then all districts would have to receive such funding,” Brummet writes. “If a school, board wishes to operate small schools, and has the support of the community, the board can add to its’ supplementary amount and tax locally to pay for them.” Brummet also attached a brief in response to the small school report. The brief disputes Castlegar’s defin ition of a small school, describing a small school as around 200 pupils rather than 100. It also argues that the report's reference to a “community” is “not precise enough.” It argues that many two or three-district neighborhoods in Great er Victoria could easily fit the defin ion of community. It states that if the Greater Victoria school board were to fund for schools in all these “com s” the district could have an addi oral 15 schools at a cost of at least $5 million. In another letter, Castlegar school district will be allowed to keep the money it saved when district teachers joined teachers around the province in a one-day work stoppage April 28. Brummet states in the letter that the money should be put into a trust account for the Funds for Excellence program “T will be providing you with guidé lines for ways in which these special funds can be used to benefit pupils in your district,” he wrote. “I believe it only right, however; that the savings are not to be used to increase or otherwise enhance salaries and benefits for teachers.” A similar letter has been sent to school districts throughout the prov ince. The one-day strike was part of a campaign by the B.C. Teachers’ Fed eration against changes imposed by the teaching profession act. The act has since passed third reading and requires only royal assent before becoming law. REACH FOR IT . . . Lorene McGregor of the Castlegar Recreation Commission leads students at Stanley Humphries secondary school through the paces of the Participaction Challenge Great Canadian today day Castlegar is up against Rossland for the total number of participants involved in some form of exercise. The losing city myst fly the flag of the winning city for a CasNews Phot by Mike Kalwsniko Aquatic centre By RON NORMAN Editor a $2.4 million aquatic centre in Castlegar are still in the Plans for works despite problems provincial funding “It's not dead,” Ron Ross, chairman of the Castlegar and District Project Society's fitness centre committee, told the Castlegar News Tuesday. However, Ross acknowledged that the committee hasn't received a fund ing commitment from the province Ross said Victoria has indicated a $400,000 lottery grant may be avail. able. But he said there is also the chance the provincial government will “re-invigorate” the Recreational Funds Act, in which case the committee could apply for $800,000 Ross said the committee is faced with a dilemma, in that if it obtains a $400,000 provincial grant it won't be able to get an additional $400,000 if the Recreational Funds Act is revived Ross said the committee has met with the Castlegar and District Devel. opment Board and asked directors Harry Stan and Richard Maddocks to obtaining pursue other funding avenues. He hasn't heard yet if Maddocks and Stan have managed to come up with any thing. Meanwhile, the committee has asked area service clubs, organizations and local levels of government for con tributions. “We had a few commitments,” Ross said, adding that almost everyone ap- proached agreed to help with the centre However, ments total only about “$200,000, maximum.” Ross said the commiitee would need another $800,000 from other sources before it could take the project to referendum He noted that while area taxpayers may be willing to pay a $1.4 million capital cost, they will not foot a $2.4 million bill. Ross said not much will happen between now and July, when he ex pects to begin another push for fund ing Meanwhile, the City of Castlegar doesn't expect the centre to be built actual financial commit $100,000 — not dead until 1989 at the earliest. In its recently adopted five-year capital expenditure plan, the city pushed back the centre by one year. The city plan details major capital projects over the next five years and is updated annually. Last year’s program showed $2 million earmarked for an aquatic centre in 1988. But this year's program shows $2 million set aside in 1989 for an aquatic centre. The 24,000-square-foot facility was first unveiled a little more than a year ago. The proposal includes a 25-metre. six lane pool connected to a smaller pool, a sauna, whirlpool, weight training room, fitness room, lounge. concession, viewing area and sundeck However, Ross said regional recrea tion director Pat Metge visited the aquatic complex in Grand Forks, which was recently completed for $1.4 million. Ross said Metge has suggested ways the Castlegar project could cut costs based on the Grand Forks pool BL a Cominco settlement won't hurry talks By The Canadian Press A tentative settlement between Cominco and its striking production and maintenance workers does not look like it will help speed up contract talks with office and technical employees, a steelworkers’ union official said. “They were able to make trade-offs that.are apparently beneficial to both sides,” said Jim Saare, president of one of two United Steelworkers of America locals representing the 550 office workers “We don't see where we can do the same thing.” The two locals have been on strike, along with the production and maint enance workers, since May 9 after their contracts expired at the end of April. No further contract talks are sched. uled. —inside LIFE'S A BEACH: Costlegar now has its own beach, thanks to a federal job creation project. The beach, called the Neighborhood Beach. is located just the other side of Keenleyside Dam... A2 TRUDEAU SPEAKS: Former prime minister Pierre Trudeau slammed the Mulroney government's Meech Lake constitutional accord . A2 CUP RUNNETH OVER: Red Mountain will host ao women’s World Cup downhill ski race next winter SALEKIN QUITS: Castlegor decided to step down BIG MISTAKE: FORT Mitt, S.C “terrible mistake” in turning PTL over to Rev. Jerry Falwell Bakker accused Falwell of pretending the move was necessary Tv k Rebels The tentative deal with three steelworker 'ocals representing 2,800 production and maintenance workers at the company's smelter in Trail and mine and fertilizer plant in Kimberley came Sunday. Local representatives are rec. ommending acceptance of the three. year pact in voting Friday and Saturday. Details of the agreement are not being released pending ratification John Owens, vice-president of local 480, said the agreement “addresses the needs of the bargaining committee” He also said he hopes the deal will be an incentive for the other locals to make “speedy progress” so everybody can get back to work. Details of the agreement were made known to members at a meeting today. president Earl Salekin has Jim Bakker says he mode o to preventa by Bakker handed PTL’s reins to Fatwet! if’March while admitting to.0 1980 sexual encounter with a former church secretary. He said Falwell promised him he could come back to PTL at any time | did not choose Jerry Falwell to take my ministry,” Bakker said in an interview Tuesday on ABC's Nightline show ‘He said he would be a caretaker and never would even be on the air, and would never have anything to do except to be a part of from oa Falwell said today he didn't see “an ounce of repentance’ in Bakker and said the former evangelist should come clean about his sexual encounter and his “homosexual problems return millions of dollars taken from the coffers of this ministry at the cost of widows holding it to keep it Bokker should also hostile takeover and people who sacriticed to make payments to the television ministry, Falwell said after a meeting of the PTL board